Random Quiz

[Dorsetmike]

Yup another goshdarned quiz, usual rules, i.e. none except first correct answer poses the next question.

When and where was the first brick house originally built on the North American continent? & what was it's connection with Dorset?

 

[Hawk Henries]

Here's a wild guess:
I'll guess Boston was the first place and the date, a guess too, 1629.
The bricks, made in Dorset, were used as ballast on a ship loaded with people from Dorset???

 

[Dorsetmike]

Hawk, bricks didn't come into common use until the 1700s and then only among the more affluent, the cost and difficulty of transporting them being the main problem, local stone would be used for larger buildings for the wealthy, more common was a timber frame with "wattle and daub" infill.

Wattle and Daub
Wattle and daub were used for the infill panels between the timber posts. Small branches or twigs of hazel, willow or oak were woven together and daubed on both sides with a moist mixture of earth, chopped straw and dung.

You have the correct side of the continent, but not Boston. It's on an Island.

 

[Dorsetmike]

Clue time; quite a bit north of Boston, can be associated with a trade which flourished starting about 1570s until the end of the Napoleonic wars.

 

[Hawk Henries]

Mike an island quite north of Boston huh?? Would the island be Newfoundland??

 

[Chi_townPhilly]

It's against my code of honor to internet-search for an answer to an interesting open question like this- but I think 'Hawk' is on the right track with Newfoundland. [Don't think it's St. Pierre et Miquelon!:lol:]

When a quiz question asks about oldest (x) in North America, it's frequently code for 'Canada.' Example: oldest brewery in North America?- Molson.

The trade in question? I guess probably the fur-trade... though I'd say the trade continued beyond the time of Waterloo, even if it (inevitably) became less likely to get crazy wealthy from it.

 

[Dorsetmike]

Newfoundland it is, furs were a part of the trade, but a food was the main commodity; many of the voyages were triangular, UK>Newfoundland>Spain/Italy>UK, others just UK > Newfoundland in spring, Newfoundland > UK in autumn.

Any further guesses?

 

[Dorsetmike]

The house in question is in Trinity Newfoundland

http://www.trinityvacations.com/trinity-do-see/museums/lester-garland-house/

The house was almost a copy of Lester's family home in a village just outside Poole.

The main trade was based on the cod fisheries, in Spring domestic goods, food and salt was shipped from Poole and other west country ports to Newfoundland, in Autumn salt cod was shipped from Newfoundland to Spain, Portugal and Italy, wines, spirits and mediteranean fruit shipped to west country. After the Napoleonic wars, the English monopoly of the trade declined, the final Poole company in the trade sold their Newfoundland holdings in the early 1900s.

http://dorsetancestry.webeden.co.uk/newfoundland-connection/4528222157